History log of /netbsd/sys/arch/acorn32/stand/boot32/start.S (Results 1 – 5 of 5)
Revision Date Author Comments
# 47ffcd69 20-Aug-2021 andvar <andvar@NetBSD.org>

fix various typos in comments and log messages.


# f27214d8 06-Feb-2021 joerg <joerg@NetBSD.org>

Modernize acorn32 boot code to work directly with LLVM's assembler.


# 37f94010 03-Feb-2008 chris <chris@NetBSD.org>

Fix-up boot32 to work on A7000+

Logically the previous code should have worked but didn't. It appeared to
fail when reading the relocation table from physical memory.

To work-around this issue we

Fix-up boot32 to work on A7000+

Logically the previous code should have worked but didn't. It appeared to
fail when reading the relocation table from physical memory.

To work-around this issue we now compact the relocation table (it shrinks
from ~800 entries to ~15 on a 2.5MB kernel) The compacted table is small
enough to copy into the page of memory we use to do the relocations. The
relocation code can now find the table, and carry out the relocations.

To help with debugging the screen border will change colour:
Red: Running without the MMU turned on (IE 1-1 physical mapping)
Note that the border will stay red a while as we're copying the
kernel over at this point.
Green: We've finished copying the kernel over (unless the code breaks
this will be rarely seen)
Blue: We're running on the bootstrap L1 table, and just about to call
the kernel.

Other tweaks include:
* copy the kernel 32bits at a time, rather than 8 bits at a time.
* assert that the relocations are 32bit aligned (so the above works)
* flush the cache and write buffers before turning off the MMU.

Tested by myself on an A7000+. Tested by skrll@ on Risc-PC and A7000.

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# 3f1a6821 25-Jan-2008 chris <chris@NetBSD.org>

Leave the SA's clockswitching enabled. It allows the SA to run at full
speed when running things from cache, rather than being in step with the
memory clock.


# 46dbb0f2 28-Dec-2002 reinoud <reinoud@NetBSD.org>

Initial commit of the 3rd generation of bootloaders for the Acorn32
platform. It features far better support for newer architectures and is
fully rewritten in C and compile-able under NetBSD.

Since

Initial commit of the 3rd generation of bootloaders for the Acorn32
platform. It features far better support for newer architectures and is
fully rewritten in C and compile-able under NetBSD.

Since it shares code with `boot26' for Acorn26 merging the common parts is
likely to be next on the list.

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